Tarot

Tarot is a deck of 78 cards that has been used for reading for a little over two hundred years. The deck here is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot of 1909, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to the design of Arthur Edward Waite. A card does not foretell anything. It is a prompt to think about your own day, and what you read here is tradition, not a forecast.

Card of the day for 20 October 2026

Card of the day

Three of Wands

• outlook
• expansion
• foresight

The Three of Wands looks into the distance. A thought about where you want to be in a year suits this day.

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The Major Arcana

The Major Arcana are the 22 trump cards, from the Fool at zero to the World at twenty-one. The tradition reads them as stations on a life's journey: large themes that touch everyone at some point.

The FoolThe MagicianThe High PriestessThe EmpressThe EmperorThe HierophantThe LoversThe ChariotStrengthThe HermitWheel of FortuneJusticeThe Hanged ManDeathTemperanceThe DevilThe TowerThe StarThe MoonThe SunJudgementThe World

The Minor Arcana

The Minor Arcana are the other 56 cards, in four suits of ten number cards and four court cards each. By tradition they speak of everyday life: what we do, feel, think and own.

Wands

Wands belong to fire. The tradition reads them as the cards of drive, ideas and energy.

Ace of WandsTwo of WandsThree of WandsFour of WandsFive of WandsSix of WandsSeven of WandsEight of WandsNine of WandsTen of WandsPage of WandsKnight of WandsQueen of WandsKing of Wands

Cups

Cups belong to water. By tradition they stand for feelings, relationships and whatever moves us inside.

Ace of CupsTwo of CupsThree of CupsFour of CupsFive of CupsSix of CupsSeven of CupsEight of CupsNine of CupsTen of CupsPage of CupsKnight of CupsQueen of CupsKing of Cups

Swords

Swords belong to air. Readers see in them thought, decisions and plain words, the uncomfortable ones included.

Ace of SwordsTwo of SwordsThree of SwordsFour of SwordsFive of SwordsSix of SwordsSeven of SwordsEight of SwordsNine of SwordsTen of SwordsPage of SwordsKnight of SwordsQueen of SwordsKing of Swords

Pentacles

Pentacles belong to earth. The tradition reads them as work, the body, possessions and everything we build with our hands.

Ace of PentaclesTwo of PentaclesThree of PentaclesFour of PentaclesFive of PentaclesSix of PentaclesSeven of PentaclesEight of PentaclesNine of PentaclesTen of PentaclesPage of PentaclesKnight of PentaclesQueen of PentaclesKing of Pentacles

Picture: Pamela Colman Smith, Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, 1909, public domain (Wikimedia Commons).